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Ray Tomlinson stole the look, feel and functionality of email from already-existing programs such as Shiva Ayyandurai’s EMAIL program. Ray made the first widely-adopted NETWORKED email program. It’s possible there were other “networked email” programs or kludges which made same-computer email programs networkable. It’s still email even if it’s limited to one computer (shared by multiple users). Ray deserves suspicion due to the hostility he projected at other email programmers, lies which he depended upon to support his story, and his later attempts to monetize his “free, open source” program.
Mr Tomlinson’s particular invention was the use of the @, in 1971.
Mr Ayyandurai’s claim is to have been the first to create an email system called “EMAIL” but that was in 1979, when he was 14.
Historians record that by 1980 MIT had been “using email for 15 years”. i.e. from about the time of Mr Ayyandurai’s birth.
Ray Tomlinson stole the look, feel and functionality of email from already-existing programs such as Shiva Ayyandurai’s EMAIL program. Ray made the first widely-adopted NETWORKED email program. It’s possible there were other “networked email” programs or kludges which made same-computer email programs networkable. It’s still email even if it’s limited to one computer (shared by multiple users). Ray deserves suspicion due to the hostility he projected at other email programmers, lies which he depended upon to support his story, and his later attempts to monetize his “free, open source” program.
Mr Tomlinson’s particular invention was the use of the @, in 1971.
Mr Ayyandurai’s claim is to have been the first to create an email system called “EMAIL” but that was in 1979, when he was 14.
Historians record that by 1980 MIT had been “using email for 15 years”. i.e. from about the time of Mr Ayyandurai’s birth.